Amazon is dominating the technical battle of the e-book game. After all, they are the ones who started the phenomenon with Amazon Kindle. Let’s look at their next device.
It’s called the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite. It is what it says it is. You read books and other texts on it, just like last year’s version, from size to battery life. The hardware and software changed a little. The processor is faster and it does come with more light. Pages turn easier. The decorations are simple enough. It’s mighty difficult to obtain books outside of the Amazon system. I think this was done deliberately for obvious reasons. Amazon is making it easier to bookmark pages on this and other devices;? bookmarking has been a common complaint by many. What really makes Paperwhite a winner is the X-Ray technology. You press on a character, place, or word you don’t understand, and a pop-up window explains it to you. There’s even a vocabulary builder app.
Now I must admit, I wasn’t a fan of Kindle, or e-books in general. Then I discovered the x-ray technology that explained what I was reading. It cleared up a lot of things, and increased my love for reading a lot more. That’s something a paper book can’t do. So my days as a paper purist ended right there. The price of the Paperwhite is $139. I’m reading you can get it as low as $119. But it’s lower than a lot of hand held devices out there. I think it’s a good buy. It would make a great holiday gift (sorry to mention Christmas in October, but I figure somebody is thinking early). So it may not be flashy and make you sing and dance, but it does what you buy it to do and gives you more. You can’t say that about everything sold these days. What do you think of the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite?